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...work matters more than mission budgets, and who acts accordingly. While her fellow workers trim their efforts to the capacity of the church purse, India packs her mission house with street arabs, a fast-stepping floozy and other unfashionable outcasts. So, while neighboring missions gleam with the spick & span look of good work efficiently done, India's Jasmine Hall assumes more & more the look of a flophouse. When economizing U.S. mission inspectors arrive on a checkup, their budgetary ax falls on Jasmine Hall and India Severn's lifework is destroyed...
Curtiss farms, like the candy factory, are spick & span. The glass brick and tile barn for prize calves is air-conditioned, has electrically-charged screens to kill flies. There are calving and isolation wards. Explains Schnering: "Calf mortality on the average farm runs 25% to 40%. That's plain bad business. Our average is just about zero." Signs in the cow barns read: "Every cow on this farm is a lady and should be treated as such...
...faces of their conquerors of three years ago. Occasionally, there sounds the discreet rustle of wax paper as a representative of the people unwraps his brown bread sandwich, neatly folds the paper and tucks it back in his pocket for future use. The linoleum floor beneath their feet is spick & span because this group has nothing with which to litter...
...idea of a moderate-priced catering service, brought in Joseph Lyons, who gave his name to the company, thus avoiding confusion with their tobacco company, Salmon & Gluckstein. In an era of mirrored gin palaces, those who could not afford the expensive West End restaurants readily took to the spick-&-span teashops. Lyons soon floated to success on an ocean of tea and toasted buns...
...that had gathered dust in warehouses from Sydney to New York was polished and reinstalled in her cabins, saloons and lounges. Decks and rails that had been pitted with the initials of some of the 765,000 troops the Queen had carried in wartime were scraped smooth once more. Spick & span in new uniforms, many of her old crewmen were back to serve again under jovial Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, the Queen Mary's chief officer...